“He wasn’t easy to like,” John Farrell writes in the opening chapter of his new Richard Nixon biography. “He knew it, and it hurt.” The hurt part — the gnawing on grievances — emerges as a defining ...

Richard Nixon has fascinated Americans, biographers and historians for the last 70 years, and, thanks to author John A. Farrell and his new book Richard Nixon: The Life (Doubleday, 752 pp., ***½ out ...

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It's been almost 43 years since Richard Nixon's historic resignation as president. While Mr. Nixon's time in office may have ended in shame, a new book argues he had an outsized influence on our world ...

When Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon attended Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Cairo in 1981, U.S. Sen. Bob Dole quipped that the three former presidents standing together ...

On Jan. 9, 1913, Richard Nixon, 37th president of the United States, was born. Historian Irwin Gellman has just published the first volume of a scholarly and comprehensive study of this most ...

When Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon attended Egyptian President Anwar Sadat’s funeral in Cairo in 1981, U.S. Senator Bob Dole quipped that the three former presidents standing together ...

What the 2016 Democratic candidate and the 37th president have in common. — -- It’s become almost cliché in American politics to call a politician Nixonian or “like Nixon” -- and it’s rarely a ...